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High-Dose Skin Brachytherapy, Larger Area

Iowa rates for HCPCS 77768

A radiation treatment in which a machine moves a sealed radioactive source into applicators held against the skin, delivers a high dose to a surface growth over a few minutes, and then withdraws the source completely. This is the version for a larger surface area, treated through more than one applicator channel. Nothing radioactive stays in the body afterward.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does High-Dose Skin Brachytherapy, Larger Area cost?

$501

Typical physician fee. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $501 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $339 to $676.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $295 to $891
$100$200$500$1Kprofessional $501

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$524.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,122.02
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,513.56
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$309.03
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$338.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,230.27
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,258.93
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$275.42
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,000.00
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$645.65
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$758.58
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$812.83

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 4.1 times more in Wyoming than in Florida. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Iowa· 14th of 51

$501

WY $1,096FL $269

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.